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Originally posted by jaden_2.0
People voted for people that behave like that. Boggles the mind. Its like if, in the UK, Count Binface actually got elected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Phillip Fisher, Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia's Moms for Liberty chapter. He is also a registered sex offender, due to a 2012 felony conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy when Fisher was 25.

Fisher insists that he did nothing wrong, despite pleading guilty to one of 12 counts filed against him after an investigation by the Chicago Police Department, according to court records. Fisher was living in Chicago at the time. But he is from Philadelphia and has since returned and become active in local politics.

He is the pastor at the Center of Universal Divinity in Olney and works with Moms for Liberty, a national conservative organization that bills itself as a defender of parental rights, by connecting the Philadelphia chapter with other local faith leaders in an effort to grow the group.

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Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
This isn't even a new tactic. The Nazis did the exact same thing in the 1930s in order to demonize queer people (labelling them child predators and accusing them of "grooming" and "recruiting" the youth) so that no one would stand up for them when the Nazis started rounding them up (along with the Jewish people, Gypsies etc.). History seems to be repeating itself.

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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Christian Ziegler, Florida's GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department accusing the longtime Republican official of raping her, according to a heavily-redacted police report.

The complaint was filed on October 4th, and the sexual battery occurred inside the woman's home in Sarasota, according to the report. Among the few words that went unredacted in the report are "rape" and "sexual battery."

The woman, according to sources close to the investigation, stated that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident. The incident under investigation by Sarasota police occurred when Christian Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman's house, without Bridget Ziegler present, the sources conveyed.

Multiple GOP sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the sexual battery investigation, and said the probe also involves allegations of illegally taping sex acts.

The allegations are sure to reverberate across Florida's political landscape, throwing the Florida GOP into turmoil at a time when the party is gearing up for the 2024 election.

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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Republican Nick Wilson, who competed on the 37th season of Survivor in 2018 and returned for the 40th season in 2020, was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2022 after running unopposed, following the retirement of incumbent Regina Huff.

In his first year in office, the 33-year-old state representative voted to ban the discussion of sexual orientation in schools, and to ban gender-affirming care for children.

On Tuesday, Wilson introduced H.B. 269, which sought to decriminalize incest between first cousins, and lower the crime of incest to a class D felony. After receiving widespread criticism, he withdraw the bill, citing a "clerical error."

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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
In 2017, a Houston college student wrote to the family of Paul Pressler, warning them that the Texas judge and Southern Baptist leader was a pedophile. "There is a serious issue at hand," he wrote in an email, adding that Pressler had recently touched him, and bragged about being naked with young boys. "I do not think Paul should be around small children or have male assistance of any kind."

Then, the young man said he was resigning as Pressler's personal aide, and asked that Pressler's former law partner Jared Woodfill stop paying him to work out of Pressler's Houston mansion. The email was filed late last year in Harris County district court as part of a lawsuit that accused Woodfill and others of concealing decades of alleged rape by Pressler.

It sheds new light on the role that Woodfill, a prominent anti-LGBTQ activist who is running in the Texas House with the backing of Attorney General Ken Paxton, played in providing Pressler with access to potential victims.

Last month, the Southern Baptist Convention settled a sexual abuse lawsuit against Pressler. Since then, seven additional men have come forward, and accused Pressler of molesting them as teenagers.

In February of 2019, Pressler lost his years-long legal battle to stop the city of Houston from providing spousal benefits to LGBTQ city employees; and in March of 2020, he represented local anti-LGBTQ pastors in a failed lawsuit to overturn Texas lockdown rules.

In March of 2023, Woodfill testified that he knew about the allegations against Pressler and said nothing; and that October, it was reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson had headed a law school that was named for Pressler after allegations came out.

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Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I also find it interesting how all these people claim to want to protect children, yet they clearly don't actually give a damn about queer kids (which, despite what they would tell you, do exist) and none of them seem to care when children's hospitals get bomb threats based on false information spread by social media accounts like Libs Of TikTok.